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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
FERRY BOATS COLLIDE.
1t is Believed That a Dozen or More Per-
sons Were Drowned.

TORONTO, Ont, Sept ia ferry boat
collision that occurred here Tuesday night
was hairbreadth escape from one of the
most disastrous lake disasters ever heard
of. Two boats were crowded with passen-
gers. just as the collision happened many
from the colliding boats, Sadie and Ger
trude. were seen to jump into the water
from the frightened and confused mass of
passengers. 1t is feared a dozen or more
were drowned. A number were seen strug-
Cling in the water and no rescues are re-
ported yet. One man who swan out to a
passenger he saw struggling in the water
says, he could not rescue the passenger.
The accident appears to have been. caused
by the ferry boat Queen City, which was q
short distance behind the boat Gertrude
and going in the same direction, and
whistled twice instead of simply following
the Gertrude.s The Queen City should NOT
have whistled Her whistle confused the
Gertrude and Sadie and caused tae col
asion. re
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches,
! FROM WASHINGTON.

LOCAL land officials on the 18th receive
the necessary instructions in the matter
q the restoration to settlement of tn,
Northern Pacific indemnity lands. About
nine million acres are invo,veL
ACCORDING to statement presented at
the Marine Hospital in Washington on the
10th, since May last, when yellow fever
appeared at Key West, Fla, there have
been 2S3 cases and 81 deaths.
DURING the seven days ended or the 10Th
there were 165 business failures in the
United States, against 153 the previous
seven days.
THE. exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses during the week ended on
the nth aggregated S056 6o6,615, against
1871, 466, no the previous week. AS COM
pared with the corresr onding week OF
1886, the increase amounts to73 per cent.
THE ninety-sixth anniversary of the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the National
Capitol by General Washington occurred
on the 18th.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
victory for the volunteer

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-THE first of three
trial races between the yachts Volunteer
and Mayfower, to decide who shall repre-
sent America in the coming contest with
the Scotch yacht Thistle, was sailed
yesterday. The course decided up
on was sixteen miles southeast by
south from Scotland lightship The
start was made at Ills. The Yolun-
teer took the lead from the start, and
finished at three o'clock p m, two miles
ahead of the Mayaower. The Thistle ac-
companied- the yachts, but fast fell behind
even the MayfloWer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

The discussion last year of the dam
ger from the car stove resulted in some
practical work. New York, Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island passed laws
prohibiting their use. A law has been
framed and will be offered at the next
session of Congress making it an ille-
gal act to heat railway mail cars with
stoves. There is nomistaking the fact
that the red-hot stove and the oil-lamp
nave got to 90. NJ
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

A NEW trade for women in Albany
N T., is that of ''neighborhood
darner," The woman who follows it
has for her customers a dozen OF TWEEN
ty households, each of which she visits
weekly, and spends a few hours in do
ing up the family darning and mending.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

Mrs. FRANK LESLIE has paid off
$500, 900 OF her husbands debts and is
now worth a million in her own right,
and a Buffalo woman has been given
the contract for cleaning the streets OF
that city for the next five years for
$4,000 The softer sex appears to be
hardening considerably in business
moftnrS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

HE American astronomers who
went out to China to witness the total
eclipse of the sun were poorly COM
penSated for the long voyage. Soon
after the eclipse began the whole affair
became doubly eclipsed by dense
clouds, and so remained to the end.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

Mr.. CoLMAN, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, is delighted with the sue
cess of the sugar manufacture of Kan
sas and New Jersey. The sorghum,
by new process, is made to yield
twelve hundred to fifteen hundred
pounds of sugar per acre. %
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

'lT would amuse one," says the
Galveston Neo0S, ito take the files of a
Texas paper fifty years old and mark
the similarity of the efforts of that day
and this in city building. Many towns
that were then represented as rapidly
becoming cities are wholly forgotten. .
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

The jailer of Colorado jail didn't
want to be too hard on the prisoners,
and ne allowed them fiddle. Inside
OF it were concealed a lot of saws, and
that night eleven prisoners fiddled their
way to freedom.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
Alabama en- the nth, the first in over six

Alabama en- the 17th, the first in over six
weeks.
NEAR Reeds, Ala, Monroe Johnson (col-
ored) was lynched on the 18th for the MUIR
der of Mrs. John Foster.
FIFTEEN business structures in the town
of New MartinsviHe, w. Va, were de-
stroyed by fire ON the 18th.
The trial of Fred Munchrath. Jr., at
Sioux City, Ia, for the murder of Rev.
George G. Haddock, was ended on the 18th,
the jury IN the case after being out nearly
twenty hours, returned verdict Of guilty
OF manslaughter, the extreme penalty of
VII ch is eight years in the penitentiary
AT lronWood, Mich, on the 18th fire
which started in restaurant destroyed
nearly the entire business portion of the
town, causing loss of over $3.50, 600
The business district of Ashland, H.,
was almost completely wiped out by fire
on the 18th. ~
AT Columbus and Cleveland, O., eireu-
lars were distributed in all public places
on the 18th calling upon working men to
resist the judicial murder; of the Chi
cago~ Anarchists.
Four men were arrested in Cleveland,
o.. on the 10Th while attempting to pass
counterfeit FIVE dollar bills of the Bank of
British North America They claimed
that they received the bogus bills from
Chicago counterfeiters.
The engine of the Bee line limited .ex.
press jumped the track at Fern, Nd, on
the 18th, turning completely over, and
killing Engineer Mike Reddington and his
son, the fireman.
Two passenger trains on the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway collided on
the 10Th, near Dubuque, Ia, five train-men
being killed.
BY the capsizing of a boat causel by
collision with small steamer at Lake
Geneva, Wis, on the 10Th three young
men were drowned.
COMPLAINT was made by the Sioux In
dams in Dakota on the 10Th that the boun.
daries of their reservation were not well
defined, and that much OF the food fur
nished them by the Government was
musty. They were also opposed to the
allotment of their lands in severalty.
The dry weather had so damaged corn
in Illinois it was reported on the 10Th that
that there would be only half crop.
The failure of the George Weber Brew
ing Company of Cincinnati occurred on
the 10Th. Liabilities, $612 600; assets,
s228, 900.
In his annual report issued on the 10Th
Governor Ross, of New Mexico, says thu
population of the Territory is rapidly in.
creasing the mining interests are revivng,
agriculture is extending, and the cattli
ranches are destined soon to become things
of the past.
A FIRE at Lima, O., on the 10Th de-
stroyed part of the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton railroad shops. Loss, 100000
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

THERE has not been u bank failure
in China for nine hundred years, says
the London Telegraph. The reason for
this sound financiering in the Flowery
Kingdom has escaped our British con-
temporary. During the reign of the
Emperor Hi Flung an edict was issued
that upon the failure of bank the
heads of the president, cashier and di-
rectors should be struck off and piled
up in corner with the other assets.
This simple but earnest edict has neRr
been repealed and Chinese bank stdMk
has continued to be above both par
and reproach. ~ & ss
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

WILLIAM Mob ARNIID, who claims to
be the "oldest living printerand news
paper writer in the United States, "
lives in Healdsburg, Sonoma County,
Cal. He was born in Edinburgh Nm
1892 was apprenticed ,tofa printing
firm when he was fourteen. years old,
came to this country in 1886, worked
on various newspapers here and in
Cincinnati until 1878, when he went to
California; where, ,uutil q year ago, .he.
used to write for the press, his favorite
topic being an improved social life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

THERE were over 5, 600, 600, 900 cigars
manufactured in the United States in
1886. In 1884 there were little over
5000, 900, 900 made, and in 1880 a little
over 2, 900, 900, O0O
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

On September l, 1886, over six thou
sand buildings in Charleston were in
ruins and sixty thousand people hoane-
less. The damage was nearly Sc, 900, 900
The only traces of the earthquake now
are ut Hibcrnian Hail. The relief COM
mittee contributed $500, 900, switch
was mainly expended in the REPAIRS
of about twenty-five hundred buildings.
and other sums have been distributed,
making an aggregate OF $1,000, coo.
Probably S., $4,000 have been ex-
pended in the past year in rebuilding,
and the structures are more substantial
than those DESTROYED. sac,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

MRS. PUTNAM found recently twenty
500 bank notes in the floor Of an old
Boston house which dates back to
revolutionary times and had been long
unoccupied
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

The dairy interest of the United
States has reached great proportions,
the capital invested being more than
IS, 900, GOO The number ofmilch cows
is 21,O0o,O00, giving 1850, doc gallons
of milk yearly. Something over half
of this is made into butter and the
balance is made into cheese or con
sumed by the men, women and babies,
The value Of the dairy product of the
country last year is estimated at $780,
600, 600, which exceeds the value of the
wheat crop and nearly equals that of
the corn crop. As some one says; Corn
Is king, but the COW is queer" I
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IRISH landlords at a meeting in Dublin
on the 18th adopted by unanimous vote
resolutions denying that the present rates
prevailing in Ireland were oppressive or
that reasonable attachments had been re-
fused.
AT Manipore, India, an instruction was
suppressed on the 10th with a loss to the
rebels of nine killed and many wounded.
A FORCE of Cuban f.ibusters, led by
Manuel Garcia, landed near Matanzas on
the 18th, and in skirmish with the troops
and civil guards the leader was reported
to have been killed and seventeen of his
followers captured.
THE British Parliament was prorogued
by Queen Victoria on the 10th.
AN excursion train on the Midland rail-
road bound for the Doncaster (Eng) races
was wrecked by collision on, the 10th,
and tWentyfour persons were killed and
about seventy injured.
In Italy the cholera outbreak con tinued
to increase in seriousness on the 18th. The
alarm was made greater by the fact that
the disease is of more virulent type than
that of recent years.
OFFICIAL STATISTICS received on the 10Th
from Cairo, Egypt, report that eight hun
bred families have been rendered desti-
and property worth $500 900 has been de-
stroyed.
KING WILLIAM formally opened the Hol-
land Parliament on the 18th. He declared
that the finances of the kingdom and her
relations with foreign powers were in
satisfactory condition.
The Newfoundland coast was strewn on
the 10Th with wrecks caused by recent
great gale.
BOILER explosion on board the steam
ship Elbe in Lordon on the 10Th killed
eight men, The vessel was on a trial
trip to Stokes bay.
By recent explorations of Terre del
Fuego, it has been ascertainei that, con-
trary to common belief, the archipelago
contains valuable farming lands, forests
and mineral deposits
FORTY sailors were seriously injured by
an explosion of rockets on the 10Th on the
British war ship Bellerophon, at Quebec
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23
FOREIGN COMMENT.

LONDON, Sept 1.-THE centennial cele~
bration at Philadelphia is attracting univer-
sal attention here in England, and with the
exception of a few habitual grufnblers, who
sheer at every thing not English favorable
comment is heard on every hand The
daily papers are devoting considerable space
to the subject, both in their news columns
and editorially The Daily Neaos says: 1.-THE
experiment which has now been in progress
across the Atlantic for over century is the
most conclusive that has ever been present
ed in the history of humanity With Amer
lea among the nations of the first rank, the
humblest may take hope. The true festival
of universal humanity is being celebrated"
Words like these exhibit the spirit shown
toward America in her triumphant celebra-
ton by the English press in general, especial
ly the less conservative papers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

A MICHIGAN woman, who probably
had much time to spare, has made a
unique dress The material is COM
mon spool thread, white, and the en-
tire dress is hand-crocheted work.
beautifully lowered and strong, and
ten thousand yards of thread were used
in its construction. The sleeves are
orocheted in the proper shape and are
fastened in by a lock-crocheted stitch.
1t is very beautiful, and Mrs. McCor-
mick was six months completing il.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

HERMAN STRIcKER, of Reading, Pa,
has a collection of butterflies for which
nc has refused $4,000. Mr.. Stricken
must have struck The butterfly world
very hard.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

MARY ANDERSON denies the rumor
that she is to become a subject of
Queen Victoria. 81 shall always be a
bluegrass country girl," she.says.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

MARK TWAIN will be ffty-two years
OF age in November, but he will go on
Joking the same as he did when he
was YOUNG.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

IT is estimated thats9the recent cow
boy raid on old Colorow, the Ute chief,
will cost Colorado 5000, 600.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

The Fort Wayne Gazette says that
s'dogs kill every year in Texas.$5, 00O,-
900 worth OF sheep"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

"A lady called on a friend who was
not at home, and finding the piano
dusty wrote upon it ''Slattern. They
met the next day and the lady said:
Il called on you yesterday" Yes; /
saw your card on the piano." was the
piano" was the reply.-M y. Ledger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

Letter Carrier That's for your
mistress, isn'tit?" Maid Yes, that 5
for Miss Julia. He has written three
times to her since she wrote to him.
Guess she wants to give him the grand
bounce. ~ TegQs Sylings.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

Young Ted Castle-Quite lot of
girls smiled on me on my way down
the avenue, just now, Jack, chawming
girls they were, too.'' Jack-'I dom t
wonder they smiled, Teddy; your neck
tie is way round under your ear. I
D-.a5.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-23

Johnny Greenhorn's first letter
Johnny Cat the window)-"How much
on this letter please?" Postal Clerk
1.-Two cents" Johnny-."Then, please,
sir, stick on a four-cent stamp. I've
written inside for Billy to write back
to me. - Golden Daqs. hi
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22
CONDENSED NEWS
Death OF the Senior Bishos.

Bishop Lee, senior bishop OF the Protes-
tant Episcor al church OF the United States,
died at Wilmington. Delaware, on the 9th.
The bishops fatal illness, typhoid isyer,
began March 4. He was buried ia the Old
swedes' burial ground in Wilmington by the
side OF his wife. :: Il:
Alfred Lee, D. D., IL. D., first bishop OF
Delaware, was born in Cambridge, Mass,
Sept. 8. 1907, in the old Worcester man.
sion, the grounds OF which join the Long
fellow homestead. Bishop Lees father
was, when a young man. a midship.
man OF the royal navy OF England. Al.
fred prepared for college under the direc.
tion OF q private tutor, and was graduat-
ed from Harvard university in 1897. Aft
er leaving college he studied law. and was
admitted to the bar in New London, Conn.,,
and practiced in that city for two years
He then began the study Of theology and
was graduated from the General Theoloei-
cal seminary OF New York in 1887. -
After the death OF Bishop Smith in 1884,
Bishop Lee became senior bishop OF the
Protestant Episcopal church. His pub
lished works are: 1.-THE Life OF St.. Peter"
1.-THE Life OF St. john" Treatise on
Bap tism," Memoir OF Susan Allebone, +"
''The Harbinger OF Christ" "Eventiul
Nights in Bible History" besides consider
able miscellaneous work.
he was a member OF the American COM
mission which, conjointly with the English
committee, revised the st. James transla-
tion OF the Bible. He was also a member
OF the PanAnglican council, which met in
London. in 1873. He received the degree
OF S. r. d. from Unity college, Hartford,
and Hobart college. Geneva, in 1S41, and
the degree OF IL. D. from Harvard in 1860,
and Delaware college in 1877.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22
Sara Bernhartlt's Revenge.

"Nyn Crinkle" in the course OF an
article about Mile. Bernhard remarks
that Sara has never been a wholesome
enemy. She has always been too
much like the race of which the tiger
kitten comes-subtle and fierce. The
rival she could never crush was Sophie
Croisette. with whom she had a bitter
struggle almost constantly to main
tain her supremacy, and did not al
ways succeed. In the "Sphinx" she
failed, and in it Croisette made her
most brilliant triumphs. It is said
they hated each other with such viru-
lence that when the necessities of tho
play required them to embrace each
other Sara used viciouslv to
pinch Sophie, and she, not being
pinchable, for obvious reasons,
Sophie could only curse her
heartily under her breath. But na-
ture reyenged her. The soft round
ness that Croisette used Tnaliciously
to compare with the Bernhardt's
meag1 eness slowly grew into embon-
point and spite Of frantic and despair
ing struggles crowded her relentlesslv
oil the stage. One may be thin as
cambria needles, may be able to hide
oneself behind q walking cane and it
does not prevent the assumption OF
any role; but let q womanbe lat, will,
a double chin and saS figure like a bad
ly-stuffed pillow and no genius can
save her. The most transcsnden gifts
could not make one tolerate q Juliet,
beneath whom the balcony creaked,,
and what God-given FIRE could make
awful ana impressive q Phedre who
Taddied! So Sara was ayenged! +
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

The Swedish government contem-
plates an expedition to the South po-
lar region, to be placed under the com-
mand OF Nordenskjold, the distin-
guished Swedish navigator who, with
the Vega, in 1879 disco overed and &C.
complished the northeast passage by
enterine the Arctic ocean east of Green
land, sailing along thecoast Of Siberia,
passing through Behring straits and
making his way to Japan. The feat
had never been accomplished before,
and Nordenskjold has ever since been
famous. His expedition to the Antarc-
tic region will be watched with deep
interest The secret Of the south pole
is no less solemn and profound than.
that Of the North pole. "a. ;.g
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

1t is said at che White House that
the president has made no plans for
the summer. He believes he can spend
the time very comfortably at Oak
View, and has not yet given any con-
sideration to the question of a vaca.
tion. 1t is probable, however, that he
will take his usual month in the
mountains and may go west for a
month. He has received vast num-
her OF invitations from the South and
West and is very lesirous of visiting
those sections, when the condition of
public affairs will permit him to do so.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22


From the nine Prussian Univer
,sitiss 3,682 medical graduates were
turned out this year, an increase OF
Ia over the number let loose upon
4 pensive world the year before. The
increase in the number Of 'ssaw bones
has been so marked that the old-line
physicians have become alarmed and
taken TO adyisins young men against
entering the overcrowded profession,
= the prospects OF doctors are be-
coming worse yearly !. The old saw
shout there always being room 81
the top, they insist, Is played out, the
top being already overcro wded Itis
only = question 81 y few months Be,
fore q stampede of German 3 ysicians
with 8 medical "a Ii;ll Is this
direction 10 swell The number which,
American COLLEGES Sre annali5 putting!
o,,t.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

The New York High License bill, so
called, which was votoed by Gov. Hill
had q graduated list OF licenses. For
towns and villages the fee was fixed
at not less than $50 nor more than
$3.50, for cities OF less than 100000
inhabitants at not less than $50 nor
more than $3.50, and in cities having
400, 900 or more not less than 81 900
for g. general license, and not less than
$lOO for wine and beer, storekeepers'
and druggists licenses.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

Mr.. Parnell, in an interview pu blish-
ed in the New York Tribune, expresses
the opinion that there is throughout
England "a strong feeling OF antago-
nism" to the governments coercion
bills; and heholds that this feeling has
been developed in part by the suppress
sion of debate. He believes that the
bill cannot pass, and says: II have
not permitted myself to take so cheer.
full q view OF the political situation at
any time since the elections as during
the last few days.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

Archbishop Lynch, OF Toronto, has
issued a pastoral letter to his clergy
warning Catholics against extrava-
gance in funerals, and protesting
against the spending OF money on
heaps OF flowers shaped in eccentric
designs, magnificent coffins, and other
displays OF pomp. This is a. most
timely suggestion, and the advice can
be wisely followed elsewhere, and by
other denominations OF Christians.
Little Falls transcript., 1887-04-22

The Chicago Journal of Commerce
publishes complete resume OF the
tracklaying and railway building OF
the United States for 1887, showing
that there is new track projected
amounting to 21,374 miles, at least
1000 Of which, it is claimed, will be
laid this year. There are accounts al
50 furnished of old tracks to be rela,d
OF $3.50 miles. This would require,
according to the Journals estimates,
fully 3, 100000 tons OF steel rail.